Farms Profile 2025
Puerto Guadal, Aysén Region, Chile
Huerto Cuatro Estaciones is a biointensive vegetable farm located in Patagonia. The farm is operated with a clear purpose: to demonstrate that this approach to growing food represents the future and offers a viable way to make a living from the land. Through its daily work and commitment to biointensive methods, Huerto Cuatro Estaciones showcases an agricultural model centered on sustainability, productivity, and resilience.
Farm Budget
Overview
Total Revenue:
$216 000
Total Expenses:
$151 070
Net Profit:
$64 930
Profit Margin:
~30.1%
Income
Production:
$141 000 (65%)
Value Add:
$75 000 (35%)
Expenses
Production:
$64 900 (30% of revenue)
Payroll Labor:
$42 250 (20% of revenue)
Sales Marketing:
$21 490 (10% of revenue)
Land Occupancy:
$15 000 (7% of revenue)
Equipment:
$4 200 (2% of revenue)
General Overhead:
$2 530 (1% of revenue)
Operations
Total Beds
200 beds 15m long x 0,8m wide (12m2)
Greenhouse Area
750 m2 (2 greenhouses + 4 caterpillars)
Employees
5
Selling Months
7
Year of First Season
2018
Farm & Environment
Topography
Compact, long and some slope.
Soil Type
Silty in half of the farm and silt loam in the other half
Hardiness Zone
8b
Temperature Range
Max in the summer is 30°C, and minimum is -7°C. Normal max is 15°C and normal min is 2°C.
Frosts
First frosts in april, last frost mid october. during growing season are mild. Sometimes very rarely we can have frost in mid summer.
mountain stream and the lake (we are in the shore of the lake)
Shared kitchen/living room, outside dry bathrooms with hot showers, shared laundry, tiny houses for workers and some volunteers. A shed that has room for the office, tools, cold room, storage. We have a container with LED lights that we use as a nursery in the spring.
Owner Profile
Francisco Vio, Rolando Ahumada and the team.
15 years since finishing college volunteering in several farms. 4 years in a small market garden and now 8 seasons with this farm.
Agronomy background from college.
First it was for finding a solution to soil destruction and poisoning. Now much more for the quality of life that brings to my family and workers.
Detailed Financials
| Item | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| CSA | $36 000 | 0.24 |
| Farmer's market | $49 500 | 0.33 |
| Restaurants sales | $55 500 | 0.37 |
| Item | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Resold Items | $75 000 | If you buy in products from other farms/producers that you sell on your farm |
| Item | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Fuel and Propane | $1 000 | |
| Repairs and Maintenance (Vehicles) | $2 000 | |
| Vehicle Insurance | $1 200 | Includes auto coverage in general liability |
| Item | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Accountant's fees | $1 200 | |
| Bank charges | $360 | maintenance fees (as opposed to credit card processing) |
| Licenses and permits | $70 | |
| Memberships | $700 | |
| Office supplies & expenses | $200 |
| Item | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Electricity & Utilities | $6 000 | |
| Location (Property Tax or Rent) | $9 000 |
| Item | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Salaries and Wages | $40 000 | |
| Volunteer expenses | $2 250 | if you have volunteers on the farm, the expenses associated with them including recruitment and benefits |
| Item | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Fertilizers & amendments | $1 600 | |
| General field/farm maintenance | $2 000 | this does not include equipment maintenance. That gets entered below. |
| Greenhouse heating | $1 000 | |
| Irrigation material | $1 000 | depends on the year, maybe an average |
| Phytosanitary products and predatory insects | $1 000 | |
| Seeds, Seedlings (Vegetables) | $5 000 | |
| Soil Analysis and Testing | $300 | |
| Supplies/Ingredients for Value-Add (Transformation) | $1 000 | packaging, labels, and ingredients for value-add products |
| Vegetable purchases for resale | $52 000 |
| Item | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Credit Card Processing Fees | $990 | square, strip, or other fees associated with selling. Also included here are fees for selling platforms like LocalLine |
| Marketing & Promotion | $1 000 | Flyers, adverting, swag |
| Travel and deliveries | $12 000 | fuel costs, tolls, etc., to deliver product and/or get to farmers markets |
| Warehouse in the city with cold room | $7 200 | |
| Website hosting and maintenance | $300 |
| Item | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Broadfork | $325 | |
| Display: Market display, farm display | $400 | |
| Electric 15 liter backpack sprayer | $312 | |
| Electronic scales | $250 | |
| Hammer, pruning shears, grinding wheel, knives | $300 | |
| Harvest boxes 70L | $120 | |
| Harvest cart x 2 (Gorilla) | $800 | |
| Hoes and other weeding tools | $212 | |
| Insect netting | $325 | |
| Irrigation systems | $10 600 | |
| Jang seeder and rollers | $1 695 | |
| Landscape fabric, blowtorch and ground pins | $1 350 | |
| Logistic boxes 52L | $2 000 | |
| Market equipment (folding tables, wooden boxes, etc.) | $500 | |
| Market tent | $120 | |
| Mesclun spinner + 2 baskets | $250 | |
| Metal rods | $0 | |
| Other | $0 | |
| Quick cut greens harvester | $800 | |
| Rakes, shovels, forks, wheelbarrows | $300 | |
| Row covers 50g/m2 | $1 500 | |
| Sandbags | $0 | |
| Silage tarps | $1 500 | |
| Sowing and sprouting equipment | $1 300 | |
| Tilther | $595 | |
| Trellising equipment | $120 | |
| Unforeseen | $8 250 | |
| Various Tools | $1 200 | |
| Website (design) | $192 | |
| Wire hoops | $400 |
| Item | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 8x30m Greenhouse (not heated) x 2 | $18 000 | |
| Bathroom and showers | $5 000 | |
| Cold room x 2 | $8 000 | |
| Drainages and access | $3 000 | |
| Fencing | $2 000 | |
| Kitchen and living room for workers | $15 000 | |
| Main irrigation pipe (underground) | $1 500 | |
| Nursery Layout (work furniture, potting soil basin, seedling tables, water heater if required, seedling lamps if seedling room) | $500 | |
| Tiny houses for workers (4) | $25 000 | |
| Tool shed / garage layout | $500 | |
| Tunnel (5m x 50m) x 4 | $5 000 | |
| Washing station layout | $1 000 |
| Item | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| BCS 2-wheel tractor | $5 000 | |
| Equipment | $35 716 | |
| Flail mower (BCS attachment) | $2 000 | |
| Kubota L3800 with frontal loader | $25 000 | |
| Power harrow (BCS attachment) | $2 000 | |
| Rotary plough (BCS attachment) | $1 000 | |
| Sthil grass mower | $400 |
| Product | Wholesale | Market |
|---|---|---|
| Arugula | $8,10/pound | $6,00/7oz. bag |
| Asian Greens | $8,10/pound | $0,00/bunch |
| Baby Mustard Mix | $8,00/pound | $5,00/8 oz. bag |
| Basil | $15,75/pound | $5,00/2 oz bag |
| Beans | — | $5,00/pint |
| Beets | $3,00/bunch | $4,00/bunch |
| Bok Choy, baby | — | $3,00/bunch |
| Cabbage | $5,00/head | $0,00/pound |
| Carrots | $3,50/bunch | $4,00/bunch |
| Cauliflower | $3,00/head | $0,00/pound |
| Celery | — | $4,00/bunch |
| Cherry Tomatoes | $3,60/pound | $5,00/pint |
| Cilantro | $2,00/bunch | $3,00/bunch |
| Cucumbers, greenhouse | $1,20/each | $2,00/each |
| Eggplant | — | $5,00/pound |
| Fennel, baby | $2,00/each | $3,00/each |
| Garlic | — | $2,00/head |
| Kale | $3,00/bunch | $4,00/bunch |
| Leeks | $2,00/each | $3,00/bunch |
| Lettuce Heads | $2,00/head | $3,00/head |
| Lettuce Mix | $8,00/pound | $5,00/7 oz bag |
| Microgreens | — | $5,00/2.5 oz. clamshell |
| Onions, fresh | $3,30/bunch | $5,00/bunch |
| Parsley | $2,00/bunch | $0,00/bunch |
| Peppers | — | $6,00/pound |
| Radishes | $2,10/bunch | $3,00/bunch |
| Radishes, Winter | — | $4,50/pound |
| Scallions | $3,00/bunch | $3,00/bunch |
| Spinach | $8,00/pound | $5,00/6 oz. bag |
| Summer Squash, baby | — | $3,00/pint |
| Swiss Chard | $3,00/bunch | $4,00/bunch |
| Tomatoes | $3,60/pound | $4,29/pound |
| Turnips, Salad | $2,20/bunch | $3,00/bunch |
| Winter Squash | — | $4,00/pound |